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I mean, base 12 or 16 is definitely better than 10. Not saying imperial is better but a system like metric that uses base 12 or 16 would be best, as it’s divisible by more numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
Ancient aliens confirmed. They’d never use base 10.
That is an unfortunate name for a numbers system
Being able to easily work with fraction and integers is important for all things. Outside of mathematic? You mean outside of all things related to numbers? Ok…
What‘s 1/4 * 10^3?
What‘s 1/4 * 16^3?
You do realize that this was an example to illustrate that it’s easier to just add to zeroes, right?
I'll bite.
4^-1 * (4^2)^3 = 4^5 = 256 * 4 = 1024
4^5 (16^3 = 4^6 ) or 16^2 * 4
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